Scaffolding has finally been removed around the marquee of the LaSalle Bank Theatre, allowing the exterior renovation to be viewed without encumbrances. … Both the dates of the first preview and opening night for Robert Falls’ Broadway production of “Talk Radio” have been slightly postponed. The show now has its first performance at the Longacre Theatre on Feb. 25 and opens on March 11. … Individual tickets go on sale Friday to the Chicago engagement of the Broadway tour of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin. The show plays the LaSalle Bank Theatre March 27 to April 8. Second City’s mainstage cast is in rehearsal for a yet-untitled new show, likely to debut in late March. … The opening of Barbara Gaines’ Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of “Troilus and Cressida” has been timed with Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23 (observed). … August Wilson–the author of “Radio Golf” and “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”–will be inducted, posthumously, on Monday into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in New York. That’s the same night the Congo Square Theatre Company production of “Joe Turner” opens at the Goodman Theatre. … “This American Life” host and creator Ira Glass returns to Chicago for “No Love for Love: The Poetry Center of Chicago’s Anti-Valentine’s Day Show” on Feb. 12 at The Apollo Theater, 2540 N. Lincoln Ave. Participants include Joel Chmara, Joe Meno, Jonathan Messenger, Christopher Piatt, Diana Slickman, Megan Stielstra, Scott Woldman, Mary Fons and Justin Hayford. … Chicago’s New Leaf Theatre has snagged the U.S. premiere of the David Hare play, “The Permanent Way.” The show, which deals with Britain’s troubled railways, opens at the Lincoln Park Cultural Center, 2045 N. Lincoln Park West, on Wednesday.
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Compiled by Chris Jones
